View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the photocopy sent to Holly and Tony?
(a) A picture of a nymph.
(b) A page from a book.
(c) A copy of a letter from their great uncle.
(d) A picture of their house.

2. What does Jared's mother say she is going to do if she finds the children wandering the house again?
(a) Cut off the television for a week.
(b) Make them clean the yard.
(c) Put them on restriction.
(d) Lock them in their rooms.

3. Why is Mallory waking Jared?
(a) She wants to tell him their mother is gone.
(b) She is hungry.
(c) She has a leak in her bedroom.
(d) She heard the squirrel noises again.

4. What did Jared not want to admit to his siblings about the sound he heard?
(a) That it could be dangerous.
(b) That it was all in his imagination.
(c) That it could be a ghost.
(d) That he was going to run away from this awful house.

5. What is the result of the dangerous bedrooms?
(a) Jared and Simon have to share a bedroom.
(b) Their mother has to sleep downstairs.
(c) Mallory has to sleep downstairs.
(d) Jared has a smaller bedroom than Simon or Mallory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jared do to block out the noise in the house?

2. What does Simon say Jared better do at night?

3. How does Jared get upstairs on the dumbwaiter?

4. What does Jared think will help the creature to be nicer?

5. What was the main problem with Jared's mattress?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 333 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample